I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.
Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.
Did that as a kid. Every day.
I still remember newspapers…
I was born in 2002, China.
I remember my dad always had newspapers… we didn’t have internet… (I think I remember there being a TV, not sure how the news is run… but pehaps it wasn’t on 24/7? I mean maybe we kids just hogged up the TV for kids stuff so they had to read newspapers)
I remember I think I sometimes sat on my dad’s lap and I’d kinda just annoy him while he read lol… cuz I was attention seeking
I sometimes tried to read it too…
I remember sometimes I grabbed it because I was bored there are characters I didn’t recognize and I wouldn’t even know how to look up the definitions… cuz there was no Google Lens or that sort of thing… and its Logographic so I probably had no clue how to even look it up in a dictionary (didn’t remember even having a dictionary I don’t think), like you can’t just down down alphabetical order like in English.
I mean for someone with no internet access, newpapers seemed interesting… like its vast amounts of info… a window to the outside world… (we weren’t allowed outside much due to fears of kidnappers)
I remember more vividly when we firsr moved to NYC and dad had the 星島日報 Singtao Daily Newspaper thing… it’s all in traditional chracters and it made my head hurt lol…
Also I remember there are like free 大紀元 (The Epoch Times) stuff lying around that are free…
When I was a kid I didn’t know much about the world, but my dad was like “Oh these are the ‘Anti-China’ newspapers made by the Falun Gung Cult”, but he grabbed them anyways since they were free, and for a while I sort of viewed those as like “evil newspaper” that is “tainted”… lol…
Nowadays they just doomscroll WeChat for news…
no one ever did that.
I guess OP meant in every article they found interesting. I also have never seen anyone read absolutely the whole newspaper every time. Just imagine going over every article on every section
That smell and sound a newspaper makes when you do the traditional *thwap when you first open it. Not many experiences like it in the world.
People these days say tablet kids and instagram parents are insufferable… but like, we had to read the back of the newspaper you were hiding behind at breakfast while screaming something about Jimmy Carter being a soft bitch.
I’m so old, I remember using newspaper to wipe in the outhouse. Also Sears catalogue. Worst toilet paper ever. It didn’t clean anything, just moved stuff around.
You don’t take the Sears catalogue into the outhouse for the paper, you take it for the lingerie section. If you need a book of good wiping paper you take the Farmers Almanac
Brosef, I remember when I used to read the newspaper. The $1.25 to get the Sunday paper at the 7-11 because ain’t no way I would scrounge and spend 5 quarters in the machine. That’s for laundry money!
Those were the days. Also, remember when we got catalogs in the mail?
Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
I’m so old I remember reading the ingredients on the shampoo bottle because my brother took the bathroom joke book with him after pooping.
I’m so old I remember grabbing The Onion from the free dispenser outside my apartment building.
I’m so old I get a PSA test annually and need to schedule a colonoscopy
I do regret not ordering the matching embroidered “Face” and “Ass” towels from an ad in The Onion when I had a chance.
I thought you meant an actual onion and wondered who puts onions in a dispenser like they were gumballs.
Gawd, I HATE onions, but I have observed that many humans love them so much, that I believe a coin-operated Onion dispenser would be a huge success.
But like I said, I DESPISE onions, so my understanding of the human adoration for Onions may be poorly calibrated.
So he could tie one to his belt, as was the style at the time.
You couldn’t get white onions because of the war, so they only had those big yellow ones.
I’m so old, I worried about getting shingles, and was greatly relieved when I got my second shot.
Get your shingles shots, old folks, or one day you’re going to catch it, and you will REGRET not getting that vaccine.
Kids today don’t know about weekly, local, free, almost-always leftist, alternative press papers.
My first job was delivering them.
Read the funnies every day.
I used to get so mad at my grandparents for calling them that. They were COMICS, and it was Very Important to call them by the proper name.
I like to think I’ve loosened up a bit since I was a kid.
Yeah, but we’re so much luckier today with options online. I remember there were definitely tiers of the comics and I read them in a particular order, from the crappy soap-opera one that wasn’t funny through (oh I’m gonna piss people off now) the also-crappy ones like Family Circus and Marmaduke and… was it called Love Is? They were always so hokey… then saving ones like Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes for last :)
I did the same thing with food which is why I’m still fat. :(
When I was in high school they still delivered newspapers to machines near bus stops. Sometimes I would drop a quarter in to get one so I had something to read on the bus. It was mostly for comics, sports, and current events. When I was done I would leave it on the bus or drop it off in the hallway at school.
Gone are those days.
in the 2000s i was reading it up until the first cellphone(smartphone) came into market.
There is an old guy at the deli near me that reads the paper with his coffee.
I also remember being asked to write about current events in school and had to turn to the newspaper to find something current.
I’m so old I remember being young.
I remember asking to borrow my parents’ newspaper so I could use my silly putty to make copies of pictures.
Also reading comics, and reusing the newspaper so I could make papier mâche (or other crafts) out of it. I learned to weave by using strips of newspaper to make a mat.
Used to remember reading the comic strips in the funday times.
As I got older I used to read the Hexham Courant to see who’d been arrested I used to go to school with
